Emptiness Talks

Śūnyatā ( shoon-yə-TAH; Sanskrit: शून्यता; Pali: suññatā), translated most often as "emptiness", "vacuity", and sometimes "voidness", or "nothingness" is an Indian philosophical concept. Within Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and other philosophical strands, the concept has multiple meanings depending on its doctrinal context. It is either an ontological feature of reality, a meditative state, or a phenomenological analysis of experience.

In Theravāda Buddhism, Pali: suññatā often refers to the non-self (Pāli: anattā, Sanskrit: anātman) nature of the five aggregates of experience and the six sense spheres. Pali: Suññatā is also often used to refer to a meditative state or experience.

In Mahāyāna Buddhism, śūnyatā refers to the tenet that "all things are empty of intrinsic existence and nature (svabhava)", but may also refer to the Buddha-nature teachings and primordial or empty awareness, as in Dzogchen, Shentong, or Chan.

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Wind Stops, But Still Flower Falls

Serial: SR-00163

This audio has been improved, so more of the students' questions may be discernible.

Faith, Freedom, reality, Dragons, Community, Emptiness, Wisdom, Building, American,...
Aug 15 1971
Tassajara

Manifested Three Treasures

Precepts, Precepts, Emptiness, Priest, Anger, American, Sangha, lecture, Enemies,...
Jul 06 1971
City Center

Real Precepts Are Beyond Words

Precepts, Precepts, reality, Observe, Freedom, sitting, Emptiness, Sangha, Duality,...
Jul 02 1971
City Center

Calmness of Mind

Serial: SR-00151

Sesshin Lecture No. 2
Sunday, June 7, 1971
San Francisco

Practice is to expose yourself as you are, express yourself fully. Accepting your teacher's words....

Sesshin, Zazen, Breath, Community, Emptiness, Priest, Pain, Community, heart, Hate,...
Jun 07 1971
City Center

Not Sticking to Enlightenment

Serial: SF-05445B

===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #26, by Shundo David Haye =====

It's not completely clear how this talk dropped off the radar, as the tape had been copied and...

Sesshin, Sixth Patriarch, Emptiness
Feb 12 1971
B
City Center

Teisho (Introduced by Jakusho Kwong)

Serial: SF-05452-B

Mill Valley Zendo, talk by Suzuki Roshi

Emptiness, Precepts, Observe, Ego, Evil
Dec 23 1970
Mill Valley Zendo

Ekō Lecture 2

Serial: SR-00229

The Second Morning Eko, Part 1 of 3
Friday Evening, July 10, 1970
Tassajara

[This is the second in a series of six lectures by Suzuki on the four ekos chanted...

Eko, Chanting, Chanting, Anger, Buddha Nature, Mahayana, heart, Karma, Meditation,...
Jul 10 1970
Tassajara

Suffering Is A Valuable Thing

Serial: SR-00218

Sandokai Lecture XI
Saturday, June 27, 1970
Tassajara

[The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture:

Line 33 Bammotsu onozukara...

Branching Streams, Sandokai, Suffering, difficulty, Community, Emptiness, Pain,...
Jun 27 1970
Tassajara

The Boat Is Always Moving

Serial: SR-00059

Sandokai Lecture VII
Saturday, June 13, 1970
Tassajara

[The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture:

Line 17 Shidai no sho...

Branching Streams, Sandokai, Emptiness, Emotions, Peace, Enemies, Karma, Anger, Hate...
Jun 13 1970
Tassajara

We Are Just a Tiny Speck of Big Being

Serial: SR-00055

Sandokai Lecture V: Lecture to Professor Weller's Visiting Class
Saturday, June 6, 1970
Tassajara

[Note. This lecture was given-- as a general introduction...

Branching Streams, Sandokai, lecture, Freedom, difficulty, Forms, Evil, Duality,...
Jun 06 1970
Tassajara

Buddha Is Always Here

Serial: SR-00051

Sandokai Lecture III
Monday, June 1, 1970
Tassajara

[The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture:

Line 5 Reigen myoni kokettari...

Branching Streams, Sandokai, Emptiness, Buddha Nature, Suffering, Truth, Compassion,...
Jun 01 1970
Tassajara

Letters From Emptiness

Serial: SR-00156

How to Understand the Idea of Emptiness
Sunday, March 8, 1970
San Francisco

Emptiness, reality, Describe, Doubt, training, Enemies
Mar 08 1970
City Center

Lecture To Prof. Lewis R. Lancaster's Visiting Class

Serial: SR-00259

Practice and enlightnment as forgetting and letting go of everything. Even if we don't know what real practice is, continuing and allowing it to reveal itself. Answering...

Buddha, Emptiness, Zazen, Don't Know Mind, Emptiness, Building, Suzuki Roshi,...
Mar 01 1970
Tassajara

Non-Dualistic Practice

Serial: SR-00260

Sesshin Lecture No. 3:
Wednesday, February 25, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin, Big Mind, difficulty, zen, Duality, Karma, Anger, Mahayana, training,...
Feb 25 1970
City Center

Selflessness, Being and Non-Being: The Background of Shikantaza

Serial: SR-00261

Sesshin Lecture No. 1:
Monday, February 23, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin, Buddha Nature, Emptiness, Evil, Mahayana, Posture, Freedom, Continuous,...
Feb 23 1970
City Center

“An Unsurpassed, Penetrating Buddha”

Emptiness, Subject-and-Object, Interdependence, Observe, Community, Hate, Forms,...
Feb 08 1970

Brown Rice is Just Right

Serial: SR-00247

Morning Sesshin Lecture
Sunday, February 1, 1970
City Center

Sesshin, Emptiness, Discrimination, Buddha Nature, training, Hate, Suffering, Pain,...
Feb 01 1970
A
City Center

Each One Of Us Is A Cook

Serial: SR-00258

Afternoon Sesshin Tea Lecture
Sunday, February 1, 1970

Sesshin, Emptiness, Forms, Compassion, Pain
Feb 01 1970
B

OLD - Each One Of Us Is A Cook

Serial: SF-05386A

70 #5 - Sesshin 2-1-70

Emptiness, Interview, Faith
Feb 01 1970
Unknown

Caring for the Soil

Serial: SR-00199

Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhism
Sunday, January 25, 1970
San Francisco

Emptiness, Mahayana, Buddha Nature, difficulty, Greed, Gratitude, lecture, Hate...
Jan 25 1970
City Center

Form Is Emptiness and Emptiness Is Form

Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Big Mind, Forms, Don't Know Mind, Interdependence, heart...
Nov 13 1969

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-7

Serial: SR-00042

Third Lotus Sutra Series
Friday Evening, November 7, 1969
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Emptiness, Passions, Lotus Sutra, Concentration, Evil, Sutra, Mahayana,...
Nov 07 1969
Series 3, Talk 7
Tassajara

OLD - 1969.11.07-serial.00041

Serial: SR-00041

This is the second part of the talk from this date.

Don't Know Mind, Describe, Emptiness, reality, Freedom, difficulty, Truth...
Nov 07 1969

Sesshin, Third Night Lecture

Serial: SR-00130

Tassajara
September, 1969

Sesshin, Emptiness, reality, Passions, Intuition, Bell, Forms, American, difficulty...
Sep 1969
Tassajara

OLD - Questions And Answers

Serial: SR-00082

Set aside as duplicate.

Question-and-Answer, Breath, Concentration, Family Practice, Emptiness, Pain, sitting...
Aug 28 1969
Tassajara

Twelve Links of Causation

Serial: SR-00135

Twelve Links Of Causation
Juni-innen (Jap.)
Dvada-aiga-pratatyasamutpada (San.)

English Japanese Sanskrit...

Consciousness, Suffering, causation, Discrimination, Emptiness, Fasting, Passions,...
Aug 23 1969
Tassajara

Not Always So

Serial: SR-00124

August Sesshin Lecture
Thursday, August 7, 1969
San Francisco

Sesshin, Dogen, Interdependence, Freedom, Gratitude, Composure, Posture, Emptiness,...
Aug 07 1969
Sokoji

OLD - Not Always So

Serial: SF-06089A

August sesshin 1969 Suzuki Roshi Side B: Thurs lecture - transcribed - copied ZC

Freedom, Composure, Interdependence, Demons, resistance, Gratitude, Posture,...
Aug 07 1969
Sokoji

OLD - Not Always So

Serial: SF-05348B

August Sesshin 1969 Suzuki Roshi Thursday lecture - duplicate

Freedom, Composure, Interdependence, Gratitude, Posture, Emptiness
Aug 07 1969
Sokoji

The First Teaching

Serial: SR-00158

Teaching of impermanence, everything changing; also there is selflessness, suffering and nirvana. The sufferings of birth, death, sickness and old age. Causes of suffering,...

Suffering, Ego, Impermanence, Birth-and-Death, Suffering, Wisdom, Truth, Attachment,...
Aug 02 1969
Tassajara

OLD - The First Teaching

Serial: SF-05302B

Aug 2 lecture beginning - duplicate

Faith, New Year, Politics, Attachment, Evil, Karma, Emptiness
Aug 02 1969
Tassajara

That is the purpose of counting

Truth, Daily Life, Anger, reality, Karma, Emptiness, Wisdom
Jul 28 1969
Tassajara

Blue Cliff Records-43

Serial: SR-00032

Tozan's hot and cold.

Blue Cliff Record, Emptiness, Pain, Monks, difficulty, Forms, Hate, Commitment,...
Jul 26 1969
Tassajara

I have nothing in my mind

Emptiness, Forms, Zazen, Buddha Nature, Freedom, Passions, Interview, Beginners,...
Jul 15 1969
Sokoji

OLD - 1969.07.15-serial.00030

Serial: SR-00030

Second part of talk from this date.

Emptiness, Lotus Sutra, New Year, Don't Know Mind, Sutra, Forms, Bodhidharma,...
Jul 15 1969

FORM AND EMPTINESS II

Serial: SR-00027

Wednesday, July 9, 1969
Tassajara

Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Forms, reality, Enemies, Truth, training, American, Duality,...
Jul 09 1969
Tassajara

OLD - Form and Emptiness II

Serial: SF-05228A

Protection master: made from cassette: "July 5th (1969) Roshi on form and emptiness (ZMC)" "From psychological point of view" and some discussion of Chinese medicine. Time: 60...

Emptiness, Oneness, Describe
Jul 05 1969
Tassajara

OLD - Form and Emptiness II

Serial: SF-05228B

Protection master: made from cassette: "July 5th (1969) Roshi on form and emptiness (ZMC)" "From psychological point of view" and some discussion of Chinese medicine. Time: 60...

Emptiness, Enemies, Duality, Attachment, Hate
Jul 05 1969
Tassajara

Practice Should Be The Practice Of “Right Now.”

Serial: SR-00024

Thursday, July 3, 1969
Tassajara

Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Forms, Faith, reality, Describe, training, Enemies, War,...
Jul 03 1969
Tassajara

Emptiness is Form

Serial: SF-05968

Sunday, June 29, 1969
San Francisco

Newly uploaded version has speed adjustments made; should be a little clearer for transcript - not just end, but correcting...

Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Current Events, Balance, Faith, Beginners, Continuous...
Jun 29 1969
Tassajara

1969.06.29-serial.00021

Serial: SR-00021

Duplicate of talk from this date.

Emptiness, Forms, Balance, reality, Continuous, Wisdom, Death, sitting
Jun 29 1969

Shosan Ceremony

Shosan, First Principle, Emptiness, Compassion, Lotus Sutra, Patience, sitting,...
Nov 11 1968
Tassajara

OLD - Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-7

Serial: 68-10-00-F

Fall 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Suffering, Truth, Emptiness, Precepts, Wisdom, Pain, Mahayana, Ceremony...
Oct 30 1968
Series 2, Talk 7
Tassajara

The True Dragon

Dogen, Baso, Dragons, Freedom, Soto Zen, Emptiness, Bodhidharma, soto, Instruction,...
Oct 12 1968
B
Sokoji

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-10

Serial: SR-00002

Fall 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, sitting, Ceremony, Emptiness, Priest, Funeral, Composure, heart, Monks,...
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 10
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-11

Serial: SF-05251

October 1968
New version uploaded, should help with transcript

Lotus Sutra, Lay, Emptiness, Interview, Ceremony
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 11
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-12

Serial: SR-00004

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. 12
Shunryu Suzuki Lecture

October 1968

Lotus Sutra, First Principle, Suffering, Observe, Compassion, Intention, heart,...
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 12
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-7

Serial: SF-06043

Fall 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Emptiness, Mahayana, Precepts, Nirvana, Enemies,...
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 7
Tassajara

Shosan Ceremony

Serial: SF-05094

===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #23, by Shundo David Haye =====

This was the last of the three 5" reels that appeared to be from the summer of 1968, but there...

Shosan, true dharma, Separation, Faith, Emptiness, confusion, Dragons, Ego, Passions...
Sep 10 1968
Tassajara

The Ten Powers Of A Bodhisattva

Serial: SF-05106

Sunday Morning, August 25, 1968
[This date is probably incorrect. Earlier (July 21, 1968), Suzuki mentioned that he had already explained the ten powers of a bodhisattva....

Bodhisattva, Dogen, Rinzai, Soto Zen, Emptiness, Five Ranks, Observe, Attachment,...
Aug 25 1968
Sokoji

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